Surprise in the interview: a HR manager secretly wants to test an applicant and pretends to be a receptionist.
But that goes completely wrong.
Job interviews * probably make most job seekers sweat on their foreheads.
After all, many HR managers don't just limit themselves to technical questions, they put
applicants
through their
paces
.
A hiring manager has now taken the whole thing to extremes, as recently became known on the Reddit platform.
HR tests applicants even before an interview
A Reddit user, presumably an employee of the company, reports on the questionnaire how an applicant was
lured into a
nasty trap by an HR manager
.
But with the best of intentions, as it turned out later.
Finally, she was looking for an applicant with high social skills, a "warm, approachable and sociable" person who would later have a lot of contact with customers.
To test the applicant, she posed
as a receptionist at the company's reception
.
This enabled her to scrutinize his behavior towards people before the actual job interview.
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Applicant fails due to unfriendly appearance
When the candidate appeared for the interview and registered at the reception, he immediately fell into the trap: Instead of being polite and friendly, he is said to have been very dismissive and arrogant towards the supposed "receptionist" and hardly looked at her.
“She tried to engage him in conversation.
Again no eye contact, no interest in talking to her, ”writes the Reddit user.
“He was frankly impolite and treated her as if she were beneath his dignity.” A fatal mistake that cost the applicant the job after just five minutes.
And that even before the actual interview!
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Tip for the interview: "Be nice to everyone in the company."
When the HR manager finally called the unsuspecting applicant into the conference room, he suddenly appeared "friendly, open and relaxed".
But his abrupt transformation was of no use to him, and the HR boss took him hard.
She explained to him that
every single person in the team deserved appreciation and respect
- and declared the interview over.
The next time he should take the advice of the employee to heart: "Be nice to everyone in the company."
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